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of ads check out our patreon Link in our description hello there I'm Kelly
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and I'm your DM Ethan welcome to venture fourth [Music]
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foreign [Music]
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ly you all had been in an intense questioning process and hey Freed's void
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when Timmy burst into the void and let you know that something was going on outside an attack of several fire Giants
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you all rushed outside to save the town as best you could and after one of them fell
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another one fell two more fire Giants joined The Fray and went all
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seemed to be lost a massive crack of thunder and lightning
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and a storm giant from the clouds entered The Fray defeating these two other fire Giants
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Kellick and Seeker had approached the storm Giant and garnering a moment of
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favor with it were bestowed a brief token what was a ring for the
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storm Giant was presented to you as for people your size most likely a belt
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and after the chaos diminished Timmy once more appeared into the rain with a
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massive cauldron instructed by hey freed to collect some of the magma blood from the fire Giants
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as you all settle look around see Timmy filling up this cauldron as far as it
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will go and taking it back over to hayfried's house what are you all doing
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uh I would like to just kind of
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get the attention of everybody around say okay everybody uh I have an idea it's
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very fresh given some of what we just learned but it might help this town and
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uh could we we try to collect as many of the people that uh
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that are here is possible into the street is it still raining it is still pouring
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yes I have at this point like pulled my cloak over my head in distress
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me um the hayford's void to kind of Move Along Move Along
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um but after hearing this I kind of will stop where are we gonna go
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is there a I know some of the buildings were crumbled is there anything that looks what about the temple
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it's probably got space sounds good oh yeah we'll meet you there come on
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Flynn let's go all right and I'll help her uh along or like a kind of like let her lean on me like
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help each we'll help each other get to that all right um and you all make it to the temple
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um and along the way we are um uh just approaching anybody who seems able enough to uh stand and move and and
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uh um ah wait I hope you're doing all right we
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were hoping uh we could get to a little meeting put together here we want to figure out uh a way for this town to be
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prepared for such things is that right stickers that's what you had in mind yeah
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yes uh every Okay so a walk kind of uh uncertain to like the
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front of the temple or like uh uh it's got like an altar like yeah there's an
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altar at the front of the temple a walk to the Altar and and set my bag my backpack down and reach
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into it and pull out a wooden cylinder
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that's got some some script around it and I will start to say
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the world is mad right now this I've never seen entities like what I
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don't I've never seen anything like this and there's chaos all about
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and while I know the old gods are gone and I don't have much
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faith or belief in any of the Gods what I think I know is that belief in
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something is important right now and as I'm saying it I start to twist
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the wooden cylinder as I'm opening it I will look
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uncertainly into well no I don't know that it would be uncertain I think I'm I'm pretty certain on what I'm doing and
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uh continuing old gods New Gods
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I don't care what you believe just care that you believe something [Music]
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and I will open the cylinder and there's a purple orb floating between the two pieces
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what I believe is that
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to stop this this madness foreign we need to believe in something
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I would ask that any of you that can or that will
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make an offering of any kind of magic or incantation
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to do so here and I was stepped back and let I will set the
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cylinder down the larger piece on the Altar and the the glowing orb uh
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the the purple orb will be floating above it and I will step back for a
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moment at this point throughout your your speech to the crowd
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um about probably about a hundred people are now in this Temple
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and as you twist the item and it opens up
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I'm gonna have you make an Insight check for me I just want to say that up to us getting
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to the temple I was like kind of um in the spirit of the moment of like okay
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yeah let's follow a secret into this whatever's going on and then at the moment he pulled out this object I have
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bristled and I'm like retreating whatever Shadow is nearest
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[Music] that's nice uh 18 and 18.
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you see about
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see about half of the crowd [Music] begin to disperse and leave
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you can't quite hear what's said but you can hear some murmurings [Music]
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you can see another probably 20 people in the crowd
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stay but are also beginning to whisper to one another [Music]
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the remaining of the group seemed to be invested in what you're saying I I'm gonna I'm leaning on Flynn
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he's like lean my head down a little bit and I get I say Lynn
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yeah I don't what do you what is that do you you don't know what that is I don't know what that I don't know what that is either
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should we do something he's kind of creepy let's just see how it plays out yes I mean we trust him right
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yeah but like I'm also like really tired it was weird to ask people for things
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right like we don't ever do that well except for money yeah pastries
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DM do I know what this object is have I come into uh proximity a religion check
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for me for my time in the old the old world
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[Music] the DC is going to be very low okay or did you bet that is um 11 11. um yes you
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do know what this is um this item you have seen
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in most temples to laureus and
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it is from what you understand um a tribute totem where upon activation
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um as Laurus is the god of fire and Magic it is traditional in Temple
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services to open up this this totem revealing the swirling magic within and
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to have um tributes to come up and cast spells
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into the totem sacrificing a spell um in honor of Lawrence
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[Music] um how close are we to Kelly
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Flynn and I I think I've I'm on the opposite side of
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the like I'm like as far back on the opposite side as I
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could be but I'm probably like looking across uh with a a a Grimace of
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uh Fear Can we see him um yeah you guys are are um you guys
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would easily be able to see him yeah I'm gonna like try to catch his eye can I can I catch his eye yeah okay I'm
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looking over at them I looked down at Flynn and I look back at Cali and I shake my head
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um and I like shrug my shoulders to kind of ask like try to get him to tell me what's going on
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uh I look up at the uh the
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tribute totem and I look back to Alma and Flynn
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and I wince um do I see him wincing yeah I'll hold
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my my hand out and do a thumbs up and I'll do a thumbs down and then I'll do a
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thumbs up and I'll kind of give him like a confused look hoping for uh
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uh I I pull from my pocket my scorched
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emblem of Vermeer and I and I and I just barely poke it up
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from my clenched fist like I don't like in such a way as to try not to show it to anybody around us and I just kind of
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like widen my eyes and look at it uh uh suggestively I don't know if Flynn I
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think that's either like this I tilt my head to the orb he's like
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part of Vermeer or maybe the old gods or maybe it's a burnt something I mean
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there's a lot of things that that symbol could mean it's on fire so like but
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my guess is bad racing I'll step back up and say I am no
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I am no priest I am no cleric I am a collector of items and I've seen
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this one used in temples as an offering
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and my simple idea is to ask of us
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to give something to this in order to fight this chaos
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that is around us and I will step back and begin to
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um asked us a spell myself um
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and as I do as I release this purple energy from my hands
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um it is absorbed by the purple and everyone else sees as soon as he casts the spell all of the
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energy emanating from his hands like a magnet is drawn directly into the orb and is
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completely absorbed and Seeker as you're looking around you look around the temple
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and you look through the doors of the temple out into marstock and see
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how simple of a town this is and you see people looking around at
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each other [Music] and you see
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two dwarves approach as they cast a very basic and
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rudimentary spell and cast it into the totem as it is absorbed [Music]
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you see a much younger Dwarven boy also walk up to the totem
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and as he extends his hand out an older Dwarven woman grabs his
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shoulder and pulls him away and starts walking out of the temple with him believing in their wake
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a much smaller crowd all looking around at each other it doesn't seem like there are
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very many spell casters here do I get the impression that looking at zika
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after he just gave this speech do I get the impression that he actually doesn't know what it is or do I get the
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impression that he does know what it is and he knows what he's asking for
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um secret I'm gonna have you make because you said that you technically I'm gonna have you make a
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deception check will be a 14. 30 20.
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he definitely knows what this is I split my eyes a little bit and I lean down
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into into Flynn I don't think he's telling the truth well it looks like some people are going
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up let's no Flynn he's lying well let's find out what Kelly's trying to figure out and I'll
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just stand and I'll like go to help her up as well and like kind of leave with the way towards Kellogg uh I don't know
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if we'll follow yeah I'll go with him and I'll just kind of head over to Kellick uh yeah like what what is this
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you were showing us something I I did thumbs up or down and you showed me just stand back a bit okay
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very dangerous stuff then talking about keeping a low profile in Caldor
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here we are with an icon of laurist on the top of this Temple that's
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designated to the new Gods however when I sort of like look at the uh the dust on the floor that's no longer being
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swept by a certain Dwarven wizard however rudimentary
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it's this is a dangerous Choice Secrets made here I look at the dwarf that came up
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and did cast and Nod and say thank you
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it's not easy to trust it's not easy to it's not easy and in the middle of your
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sentence you don't even get to finish they almost bowed their head in shame and walk away
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as the rest of the crowd vacates the temple I will
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um I will walk up and put the top back on the cylinder
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grab it so that whole time I was
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right behind you but arms crossed silent despondent looking straight at the ground not
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making eye contact with you or anyone [Music]
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as the temple said empty except for us at this point yes at this point everyone has left the temple did anybody give us
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any dirty looks on their way out oh yeah a bunch of them but the three of us who are in the back
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or just oh the three of you that were in the back could we have uh averted such
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looks how would you do that uh pulling my hood up during the course of uh
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Seekers sort of ceremony I'm gonna have all three of you make a stealth check for me
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[Music] you guys all rolled along here
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the nine for Oma it's a four for calc uh 11 for or sorry ten for
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um yeah every probably fifth or sixth person that walked out directly made eye
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contact with one of you [Music] I'll call across the this uh this Stone
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Temple to Seeger that you're good at moving about places without making noise
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I am you're trying to get us it's throwing in their whatever they call a prison in this place I'm not worried about that this is the
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only base we have Seeker don't be a fool this is not
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your little trinket it has no power here how do you know what's it gonna do for
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these people how do you know I know how
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because I've seen and so are they
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and you saw you saw it of Darius Shrine but calms of
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this we have a greater cause than this and a more
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immediate one and we have this more immediate than what is right in front of us we dealt
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with the Giants attacks which are speaking of we just heard not too long ago
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that belief is key to stopping this chaos and you think you've inspired some belief to you
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at least one [Music] um it didn't seem like they were super
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happy to be um doing what they were doing so I'm not really sure that's inspiring belief
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belief in either side Seeker either side
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foreign
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however it affects the Redwoods is irrelevant Stoke in these peoples
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raid their despondence their sense of abandonment
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is not worth it and I'll just turn to head back towards
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where the uh where the void is speaker I'll yell after him before he starts to
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go I'll stop where does that magic go
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oh I will show you no I don't want you to show me I just want you to tell me where does the magic go it is right here
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and where does it go from there it depends what I do with it it doesn't go anywhere else
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no so you're just collecting Magic yes
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to do what kind of what I do what are you gonna do with it potentially use it if it could help us
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so you're just using an icon from some religion to collect magic for yourself
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well I was attempting to use it to find some kind of bridge but
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maybe that didn't work yes collect magic yes [Music]
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I just don't understand that you would go somewhere specifically
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to a group of people and like shove in their face something
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that is directly causing more people have died here because of the war and you just like shoved it in their face
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and we're like ha what about India if this makes sense
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why did fire Giants fall from this guy I don't know either but I didn't shove
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it in their face that they're fighting a war and their friends are dying
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neither did I I fought the Giants [Music] and then you brought an icon of an old
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God into their Temple to the new ones [Music]
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whatever meager benefits we gained from the magic you've collected here Secret
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I'd ask that you demonstrated a little forethought next time you
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choose to bring it out and I'll keep walking back to the void
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lastly yes you think maybe you could talk to
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him just about like keeping his old God stuff away from the
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new God people because that's just gonna cause more trauma and like I'm gonna start to think he's part of the cult of
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the red wolf if he's trying to cause chaos I [Music] I don't think that he's part of the cult
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of the Red Bull I mean he's causing chaos he's not causing order
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I think we're all tired and we all fought some really big enemies today and
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we're all processing that a little differently so why don't we go back into the goop and just
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take a minute no you're not gonna talk to him I am going to talk to seeker yes thank you okay you're welcome
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all right is everyone else headed back into the void as well I'm gonna um go up to where uh
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Seeker had placed this he placed it down on yeah front altar yeah and I'm just
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gonna [Music] um pull a cloth from my bag and just wipe the space
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while he does that could I walk up to him while he's cleaning it sure
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I get that it's maybe not the best thing to do but
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that's what he believes in no no I don't I don't know how to look
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at this but it just feels wrong trying to convince him to change his mind on something I don't
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care what he he believes then you just
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wasn't that the point we're gonna have everyone believe the new gods and stop believing in the old so for the goal to
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be successful we have to we have to make him change his mind but I don't I don't feel like you need
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to I don't know I had a lot of things in my head up to
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this moment up to speak into Amara and it's all changed
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and I I got a lot of mixed up feelings about that
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I think we all do what it's irrelevant we have a very
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material physical thing we can do now there's nothing to do with belief or rituals or
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converting people we have keys to Gates
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that should be our Focus I I am [Music] bewildered at how
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it these Giants came to be here and why I don't understand uh what oh
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[Music] keep focused we can't let these things distract us from our aims
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if we're to get anywhere in this mess yeah
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just he wants to do a little ritual I don't see the harm as long as he does it
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I don't know murder next time the harm is it puts us at risk yeah I mean maybe doing it in
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the wrong Temple is probably not the smartest idea but I mean maybe next time we'll just have him do it somewhere discreetly or I just don't want to stop
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him from having to pray or whatever foreign
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health the way
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that these people and I kind of look uh uh forlornely out the door at the at the
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whatever Horizon of people I can see in the distance still leaving
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that these people are so angry then
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and I really need to kill and Die For Less cause
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these rituals were forced upon them [Music] and
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seeker can spend his time however he wishes but
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we must be careful with our intrusions I agree I just
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think that we shouldn't start by saying you can't do your rituals I think you should
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if you stop people from thinking they need to kill others because they're doing different rituals that's probably we need to start with first
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I don't know I'm still thinking about it too I um see them over in the corner talking
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or by The Altar and I've kind of like walked my way over there after talking to the thesley what are we talking about
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I'm not even sure yeah like up until
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today I taught that familiar had abandoned me to the darkness
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out of spite [Music] or because I was
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weak or Petty or angry
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or even and now
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I learned that she's just incompetent
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and a woman like Artemisia can shred her
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peel the skin from her to use how she pleases
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so where am I stand up here and I look out amongst the pews of this
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Temple all right in a pit with the burnt bodies of corpse
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it's a lost cause to even wonder hey
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what it's worth I don't think Seeker was like trying to do a big ritual or anything I don't even
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think you're being stupid I don't think he really cares about the old gods we're the new Gods I think he just wants power I mean Flynn I think he just wanted the
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magic for himself you know like is that better no it's not it's like Flynn trying to give his door
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to people and get more money it's the same thing as lying this is wrong we
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shouldn't lie to people and I'm just how did this get here and I walk away
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that's not the same thing I watched them leave I spend a couple
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more just moments kind of like looking around the temple and I and I fall
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YouTube I'm like running after him I'm like it's okay that you did it I'm just saying
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um Alma you follow into the void yes uh Destiny
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you are I I would just wanna after a Seeker left and they all had
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that conversation I would want to find a place to sit for a minute and just kind of put my head in my hands and is is the
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is the void constantly open like can I see it in front of yes it is a doorway okay
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um so I would just take a moment um just yeah just like face covered trying to
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recompose myself before walking in after them okay
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and last to enter the void killick right as you're about to step into the void
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you hear a Dwarven voice from outside of a free home
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hey someone come help me with this and you can see a group of other dwarves
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beginning to move over uh into sort of behind the building where you and Seeker
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had originally run to uh to distract the fire Giant
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I stop and and I I have a little moment to myself of just like
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and then I turn and I and I head out to the source of this sound all right and by the time
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you get there um a small group of people have have accumulated
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um and as you approach you hear um the the rain pouring down hitting the
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ground and you can start to hear through the rain murmurings from people and as you round
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the corner you see where that fire giant once was
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you could see where he had his pickaxe and you could see where he had driven the pickaxe through the building and
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into the ground and at that spot in the ground there's a sizable crater that has formed
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probably about eight feet in diameter
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and you can see at the bottom of this crater the dirt and the mud and
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everything cleared away from where the fire giant had hit but at the very bottom
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you can see a massive slab of wood that has just barely become uncovered
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[Music] at the at the as the pickaxe buried into
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the wood or the fire giant took the pickaxe out to attack you with it but you can see where the fire giant was
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driving it into the ground through the building and into the ground seems has uncovered a massive wooden
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slab shortly uncovered you can just barely see through the the mud and the dirt you
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can just barely see some wood that's been uncovered and does it appear uh I don't know can I get a closer look
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at it or the people are are they trying to get are they trying to excavate this or what what are they doing you can see
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at this point curiosity seems to have peaked at these about 10 dwarves that
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are around this and you can see some of them um getting on their hands and knees and scraping dirt out you can see another
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one um running up with two shovels and beginning to to dig out the dirt around this
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uh I'll turn to whoever seems to be leading this the operation is there anyone or is
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it just a it just seems to be a bunch of people trying to dig up the dirt uh
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does it have any like inscription on it or anything uh from what you can't even see the
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edges of it um but it seems to be like almost a wooden platform that they're uncovering
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uh just if you had dug straight down into the ground and all of a sudden hit some wood
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like a wood yeah platform okay
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what what do you need help with uh do any of them even turn to root card
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me um two of them do toss you a mean glance sort of keep hold
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eye contact for a second or two longer than what's comfortable and then continue on without answering you
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um is there anything I can do yeah maybe you could just step back
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I think we can handle this all right um
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anyone gets a splinter yeah yeah I think we'll be okay
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all right then you can head on um
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I'd uh listen I apologize uh for the behavior
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of my uh acquaintance there it was not uh but I expected I said you could head on it's
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okay [Music] I [Music]
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I would suggest that you do uh as you can see
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some of the doors stop digging and their attention comes to you
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right [Music] um I'm not sure if you know this but
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I killed a fire giant right at this spot so I wouldn't go threatening me this way
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I'm here to help you and I show them my ash and arm I'm
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as on your side as any man in this town could be
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loyalties can be uncertain nowadays that is true and I think we would just prefer
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the safety of our neighbors if you don't mind some of them grab shovels once more and
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continue digging but I'm good
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you don't uh happen to know why your little town was besieged by
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fire Giants well it looks like this one was attempting to dig up something
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and I look again has any more of it been uncovered yeah and as more and more of it's being
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uncovered it's a giant wooden slab they have not found the edges yet
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and just just wood just wood right
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have fun in the mode and I and I just like
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sort of almost curtsy as I bow my way out and and make my way back around to the void
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all right um and Kalik you pop back into the void everyone else standing around what are
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you all doing and I'm not trying to see your sword's bad I'm just saying it I think we should think of it as the same
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thing you know because it really is the same thing and and I don't think he's trying to like pray or anything I just think he's being a charlatan excuse me
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just excuse me as Timmy attacks like waddle his way through with this massive cauldron of fire giant blood I could
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just get around here sorry okay [Music] oh I forgot to hold my breath oh you
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gotta do that damn you know what I mean Flynn we'll talk about it later but you
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know what I mean talk about it just say you know what I mean what I mean
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hey Fred yeah uh I'm sorry
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asking for yet another favor but okay I'll pull the the Giant's ring I've been
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I've had it like over my like slung over my shoulder like a bandolier and I'll
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I'll pull it off and is it like a rope or is it a metal band
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um it has got a layer of leather underneath okay and then
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um over the top sort of making a ring right in the middle um it's it's this
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um it's almost like this gel layer this hardened gel layer and um it's it's
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semi-transparent most of it's white but if you look close you can see Sparks of
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of blue electricity um streaming their way throughout this this
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gel layer on the outside okay so being very mindful of those Sparks of
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electricity being careful around them I'm gonna sling this thing off hand it to uh Hey freed
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do you think you could tell me what this is it was The Quest To Us by uh
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I think a lightning Giant I'm not mistaken
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yeah if you want to give me a couple minutes I can take your time yeah all right um and he takes it from you uh
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he pulls down his his workbench platform
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and begins to go to work on identifying what this object is and then I will take a seat and I will put my head down on I
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don't know if the table is still around yes I'm gonna just like put my like fold my hands over themselves
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with my elbows played out I just put my head down on my hands and close my eyes
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what it was raining outside but how dark is it what time is it do we know do we
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know generally what time it is of the day it is it's getting to be pretty late at night
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um the fire giant attack sort of woke everyone up but it is getting to be
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pretty late into the night okay
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okay it's on it is it close by is it it's floating in the Inner Circle
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if you want to ask kfree you can probably bring it down oh wait I want I don't want to bug hay freed okay
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I would like to try and sneak up on Seeker you probably do that pretty I'm
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like sulking in like uh is there a corner or something that I could or an edge of a press like where I could be
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sitting yeah crisscross applesauce like yeah yeah you can uh you can make your way over to the edge of the platform one
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of the platforms I would just be sitting staring out not paying attention to anything around
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me so yeah you could do that should I should I try to be stealthy or I I mean are you wearing your armor yeah yeah you
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should okay make a stealth check for me
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11. I'm super distracted but um secret what's your passive perception
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[Music] uh 12. well yeah you can you can hear her
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approaching yeah for sure um the rustling of chain mail it's just
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blankets I'll just I'll just kind of make a like
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I will smirk I can't see it but I will smirk and Nod
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to like have a seat next to me I take a seat
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okay so you tried something yes yes yes yes and
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it didn't go okay everything doesn't work no I that was not a criticism it was an observation of being very
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criticized I'm not criticizing yeah whatever you know you'll know when I'm criticizing you I know what it's like to
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be criticized by you okay well if you're gonna react this way we shouldn't have this conversation yes yes we just saw
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and fought fired and yeah some thankfully that other one came
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yeah I'm still confused about why I feel like we should put a pin in that
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um okay fine I admit it wasn't a great idea but just trying something I don't think
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it was necessarily a bad idea I think your heart was in the right place but I don't
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I don't think you thought that went all the way through because
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I don't know how much time you've spent among the people of Calder
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but this is a glance at you when you say that knowingly
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but this is bigger than any kind of presentation or offering you can make
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is it it is these lines are stupid I don't disagree why do we care these
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same people will buy artifacts from me [Music] they don't care
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they've spent 30 years killing each other over it some of them have not all of them
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but they're all stuck in the middle just like us yeah but we can do something we can but
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I think we need to be a little more International and thoughtful okay fine won't do it again
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I think maybe just wait till we get back to a border with old gods before you try
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it again [Music]
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I'm not mad you I'm not happy with you but I'm not mad
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at you because you know how I feel about
42:42
this is a very strange flip of our relationship why did you with my mother now
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well maybe you need a little mother I want to go to bed
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yeah no that sounds familiar okay well and I'm just gonna like
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give him a good old pat on the shoulder this yes
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foreign I do not know what I'm doing I'm trying
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I'm trying to make a choice and trying to do something that will help and I don't know what that means and I
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can admit maybe it wasn't the best thing to do sure
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but take your advice don't want to
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lecture anymore I I'm
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sleep on it that sounds good anyway [Music] sleep sleep
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I'm gonna kind of walk off in a huff after the lecture comment thank you Mom
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all right um okay look I just finished uh checking this thing out um
43:57
it's interesting where'd you get it I lift my head up just enough to peek at
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uh hey Fred a storm Giant and I lift my head fully
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at this point just kind of like collecting myself because I'm just exhausted
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foreign Giants that were besiege in the town
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I think they might have been digging for something underneath it uh and uh storm giant showed up started
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doing decapitations uh cutting things apart and uh
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then he well seeker and I healed him a bit and he gave it to us
44:43
um all right I understand you're a bit Delirious you can tell me tomorrow um appreciate it but uh here I took some
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notes and he hands you a small little scrap of paper with some notes very sloppily scribbled on them uh giving you
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a brief description of what uh this belt does Hereford yeah that's always
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thank you I would love to be walking like back over like behind Kalik and put my hand
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are you you're sitting I'm sitting yeah I'd wear the table where we ate put my hand on your shoulder
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and it's shaking what did we get give me a moment to read
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it Seeker if we just added it to me
45:32
I will look Riley up at seeker and and say
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I think I know a little girl that might uh get a little kick out of this
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I will not [Music] come in handy
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as long as it doesn't blow up and kill yourself look uh
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can can I read that um I guess [Music]
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I have um laid down like on the ground wherever I was
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um because I was just waiting patiently for the beds to become available and I just like have taken off my I've taken
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off my cloak and like bundled it up into a little ball and I and then I put took off my
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backpack and I put it next to the ball and I just like hugging them and resting my head on them and I'm just snoozing on
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the ground hey free looks over and and he sees you and um sort of the little smile across
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his face he raises his hand up grabs the platform with the bed out of the air and in the middle of him transferring it
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over and and connecting um to the main platform
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um his attention all of a sudden becomes a little distracted and
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he sort of pauses for a moment he lets go of the the platform
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hey what do you need [Music] I mean I do but this isn't a charity I
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mean I'm gonna want something good in return um no it do you have any storage blood
47:20
Shadow dust uh Hydra scales okay how many
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yeah no yeah no that'll work uh okay see you in a minute and he continues floating the platform
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down connects with the main platform
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and beds become available hey freed reaches into his back pocket
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and pulls out what looks like a little pinch of salt rubs it together in his
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hands sort of blows some warm air into his hands and extends his hands out towards Oma
47:57
and Oma fast asleep though it doesn't feel a thing as you slowly lip lift up
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off of the platform and are floated over and gently placed into a bed
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um I would like to look for the dining room platform yeah kellik is
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currently sitting oh is that that one I'll walk over to that one and I'll just go to the cupboard where I know that I can get food and stuff and I have to
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think about it and I'll just um I'll just think of oh so Kelly's there
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and also Seeker yes I will think of um two human-sized
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beers okay I'll just take them both and I'm about to turn around and I'll
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stop and I'll sit on the counter and then I'll think again of mushroom soup and I will
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try and balance them all out kind of kind of wobbly some soup sort of
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spills out the side and I will um set the soup down in front of Kellogg and then I will grab a beer and I will just
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and it's a Seeker I don't say anything I'll just sit down and I'll just start drinking I was not a
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fun I'll say thank you yeah we're all friends here I don't take the
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bowl but but I give them a polite knot and uh I'll just pull out my my new book
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I will start just exploring it and I will flip through the pages and I will
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um see spells that I have learned and memorized and know very well and I'll keep flipping through and I'll just see
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um spells that I don't know and I'm curious to learn about and and just the abundance of all this knowledge in this
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book and I will continue to flip and see to a point where there's blank pages and
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just empty space and and just my mind will just start spinning with possibility as I kind of
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at the beginning I was drinking more frequently but as I continue to flip through I start to forget almost about
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the beer and just completely focused on the book as I just flipped through for for a while and you
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are distracted for a brief moment as um you hear what sounds like
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almost like pots and pans falling from a tall shelf as you look over and you see
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hay freed has connected the teleportation Circle um platform to the main platform as well
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as a platform that Oma had used previously that has various material
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components and it's sort of a potions crafting station and you can see hey
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freed tossing things from from shelves and rifling through drawers
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um until he comes across a small Leather Pouch he grabs The Leather Pouch
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he walks over and sort of stands in front of the teleportation Circle
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because all of a sudden Xavier appears in the teleportation
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Circle a with a with a brief nod
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Xavier tosses over what looks like a couple of Hydra scales
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cope hey freed without a word tosses back this Leather Pouch
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Xavier grabs it out of the air puts it in his back pocket looks over to the platform where Kalik seeker and Flynn
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are West reach is open
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I love it and uh at that I will uh get snaps back into reality and remember
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that um I have more important in pressing things to also get to and I will turn to kellik
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um I guess we should we reach out to try it see if he's okay uh yeah that's probably
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right maybe tell him that we're on our way well
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uh I can do that but then of course it's a good idea to check in and try it yeah
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to have to wonder and I look at him I sort of cringe at him uh
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where in the hierarchy of our
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mission to you know prevent the collapse of the world
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um where this particular iron lights
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crisis thoughts um
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but um contact to try as a list a good place to start maybe it's all fine maybe he found the the Killer and has
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you know the Sentinel Slayer has been brought to justice that would be great ah I agree it would be nice to just have
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something taken care of yeah this this means 86 and daddies can go to West
52:47
Virginia yeah I'm sorry I heard something about West reach yes uh 86. um yeah I uh if I'd probably check
52:56
in with hair freed of course but seems as though you could leave it is getting late though do you sleep
53:04
I mean I gotta sort of shut down for a little bit but it's not really sleep I can still I'm still conscious of
53:09
everything but uh gotta power down a little bit okay well do you want to go now are you gonna You Wanna Stay the
53:14
Night I mean if it's not too much of an intrusion I do see a couple of beds over
53:20
there that look quite comfortable um I'd love to get a fresh start in the
53:25
morning yeah that'd be nice I don't know if uh any of my contacts are gonna even be up this late yeah then we could say
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goodbye to that is properly at least for the time damn all right um
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I'll be here until the morning but uh first line I'm moving out so
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if I don't see y'all wake me up 86 a moment please yeah and
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I'll reach into my bag and pull out um
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it's a really small uh container with the black substance in it that is
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Inky in nature and I will offer it uh to 86 and C
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if you ever need us you can get in contact with me with this this right and I will receive it
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just write something yes on a piece of paper or something new
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or any special paper or no okay then
54:30
um all right and he he takes it he puts in his back pocket also you you mentioned contacts do you happen to know
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a person named siren not off the top of my head no
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um you want me to get in contact with someone for you no not for me but maybe
54:48
for you and what you are doing [Music] I mean if you think it'd be helpful and
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uh I always looking for new people to talk to if it's someone I trust indeed hierarchy of of Westridge that might be
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able to help you and then in that case uh yeah give me as much information as you can you know where I'd be able to pun just mention me
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and show show him this this file could you make contact
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how would I be able to find him look in the uh political offices of West Beach
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that's where uh he collects for a very important person
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that seems like you're gonna come in handy except siren yeah yes all right and I'll put my hand out
55:34
for a shake of hands all right knee shakes your hand as well
55:39
once again the cold metal meeting your hand as 86 currently in his disguise or is he
55:48
no he he looks like a workforest at the moment yeah as a skeleton the soup at all
55:55
no okay but I've taken a couple half-hearted sips does it seem like you've stopped eating it I haven't
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touched it okay since you put it down I will kind of look over at it and just like
56:07
slowly like pull it over realizing how hungry I am hungry I am and I don't care at this point and I will reluctantly
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pick up the spoon take a bite [Music]
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it's slimy how do you eat this
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I make it to myself you just had it cooked up by this shelfing unit here
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right right it's not those ingredients it doesn't have [Music]
56:36
love and life in it really is that much better because this is terrible it's much better okay I
56:42
don't know I'll hold you to it some some point you're gonna make it for me all right I I'd love to I can't help but
56:48
like at that comment and uh I will stand up and go to it and
56:54
actually get some of their food like order some some meats and and Grains and fruits and then bring it over the table
57:00
and have have a dinner hey um if uh anyone has got some extra
57:06
time Timmy actually just brought in uh some kind of useful components um I know
57:11
a lot of you are sort of magic people but if anyone's got any weapons that they're willing to uh maybe give up for
57:17
a day or two I think I could uh ah work my magic on them
57:22
I've uh I've moved over to the bed but I perk up when I hear this can I like is that is that far enough away but could I
57:28
still have you can you can hear it yeah okay so while they were having their little group huddle over at the table uh
57:34
I had taken out my I'd like picked out a bed and I took out my sketching supplies
57:40
and I had started a drawing so I'm gonna immediately drop what I'm doing like open on leave the ink pen and like rush
57:46
over uh like excited like a little kid I want to hear this um yeah yeah what do you got
57:53
um well I've got I used two weapons typically would that be a problem short sword in the long sword and he uh he
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looks over towards this big cauldron of fire giant magma blood that Timmy had
58:07
collected and you can see in his head he's sort of doing some like mental math I think I could probably uh squeeze yeah
58:14
two weapons out of it oh that would be and then I realize I'm like standing around everyone else and I kind of look
58:21
I mean if if that's okay with I know I'm kind of new to this is everyone okay if I
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bye I mean I'm staring at the bubbles in my beer I'm chowing down the food all right
58:36
okay all right it seems okay then I claim it all right um
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I will need to keep these for maybe a day or two oh okay to work on
58:49
them um I um might have a replacement for you in the
58:54
meantime okay um that one over there came in with the little uh interesting little
59:01
tool if you want to borrow it any points over to um
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um to zergath in the the cage and as the uh his little weapons
59:14
platform comes down um he walks over and grabs
59:19
um zirgath's fire malt no he almost insane he sort of struggles
59:26
to pick it up for a moment and brings it over to you I mean I think uh I was looking at this the other day and it's it's pretty powerful it's not it's not
59:33
uh probably what you're used to with two swords but it can do some damage no
59:46
one I can handle this all right and as soon as you make contact with it
59:52
um you can feel your body temperature like raise a couple of degrees for a few
59:57
moments before it comes back down to equilibrium [Music]
1:00:04
strange sensation but okay all right um yeah and then I'll get uh working on your swords and I'll get those back to
1:00:10
you as soon as I can thank you yeah and he takes your swords um and and goes and begins uh putting
1:00:18
down on on a table and uh it seems like he's looking through some books right now just at the note taking phase
1:00:25
um but yeah now you have this mall awesome I'm just I'm beaming like a
1:00:30
little kid uh and I'm gonna like I'm gonna sort of realize what just happened and then realize that I left all of my
1:00:37
sketch stuff over open on the bed and I got this in my hand so I'm gonna run over and like prop it up against this there's like a bed post and like it's
1:00:43
just this really big mall against like this little tiny bed pose and I'm gonna go back to what I was doing all right
1:00:51
is everyone else winding down for the night I'm watching Flint scarf down this food does he seem all right like this is
1:00:59
I haven't really touched base with him since he got back from the iron light so I kind of want to like check in on him
1:01:04
and see if he's um okay it looks like right now I'm
1:01:10
tired from the fight I didn't have a chance to rest since I got back so I'm very on the point of exhaustion just
1:01:16
like so tired um but the food's helping and you notice my arm
1:01:21
um still seems like fresh his arm is just a little bit swollen from the from the
1:01:29
trauma of the tattoo her tattoo is there than before so from you see the original
1:01:36
um two uh two tattoos the ones I've been using this whole time uh there's a third
1:01:41
uh that is now added and then on top of that the whole arm is intertwined with
1:01:49
scripture um almost like in lines like fines almost like veins Vines it's kind of going up and down the arm and twisting
1:01:56
and intersecting and going around um covering the whole thing uh just with all these little Vines of like scripture
1:02:02
and then they kind of curl to a point and if you're looking really closely you
1:02:07
can see the fingertips it almost kind of crowds crawls up the finger and there's two Vines per finger
1:02:15
and they they end on the the fingertip almost like where your fingerprint is
1:02:22
now there are a new swirl of of a tattoo
1:02:28
on each finger I'll sort of like nod at them I'm like hunched over my beer at
1:02:34
this table and I've sort of barely had any of it
1:02:41
it was uh that'd make it harder to hold on to the sword it looks like it would
1:02:47
kind of mess with your crypto yeah I'm gonna put my pork down and stop eating
1:02:54
for a second oh hold on and I'll drink something eat some of the beer
1:03:00
um what how'd it go
1:03:06
oh oh and I once again I sort of nodded the tattoos yeah um
1:03:12
it was all right oh man it hurt like hell um
1:03:20
somehow I am not surprised yeah I almost like passed out and like
1:03:29
was like fighting stuff it was kind of cool but then I I woke up and it
1:03:34
really hurt it still kind of hurts and when I was fighting it I feel like it needs a minute I'm hoping when I wake up
1:03:41
tomorrow it'll be better but it just yeah I'm getting right into a fight after getting it I think mess with it
1:03:47
and it's still kind of tender I yeah I I um don't have a lot of
1:03:53
experience with such things but I know how needles work and they do leave
1:04:00
certain abrasions yeah and
1:04:06
do you feel how do you feel it's
1:04:13
it's hard to describe like because I'm I need to sleep but I just
1:04:20
feel like I don't know when I was casting the spells in the fight it did hurt but
1:04:25
it felt easier if that makes sense dick has some of the spells that I've known like
1:04:31
quicker they channeled through that right it's a yeah from from what I've
1:04:37
been told this is mixed with magical stuff I don't know it's like the the
1:04:43
gems they use the enchanting incantations that they cast on it makes it a magical ink and when they put it in
1:04:50
to your skin it allows you to basically tap into the weaved tap into that magic
1:04:56
but then [Music] very fear
1:05:02
you're a center yeah
1:05:08
yeah you did it
1:05:13
I did it's not very
1:05:20
formal there so that much time for celebration that's too bad didn't have much when we
1:05:27
got back but I yeah and I give him just like a single hearty
1:05:34
Pat [Music] and I I'll pick up my beer
1:05:39
I don't know what that means it seems important so just I I'm not at Seeker as though I
1:05:46
know everything about them I will smile and um let's raise my beer
1:05:54
and uh and cheers click my glass clink take a sip and um
1:06:00
just in the back of my head and I'll try and hide any facial expression of this but I'll just think of
1:06:06
um how Melrose was still disapproving and how it seems like I still haven't
1:06:13
won her over and that um that bothers me but I'll
1:06:20
put on a smile and hide any alcohol
1:06:25
and I will um I mean I I guess or is everybody like
1:06:31
chilling or are people getting ready for bed at the table I guess because yeah that was my last chug and I'm getting
1:06:38
I'm like pushing back just stand up and um I'm just going to uh give a nod and
1:06:45
and uh and move to a further chair and look for Australia's uh tether if I can find it
1:06:51
to cast sending um yeah and after a moment you're able to find shrey's tether grab it twist it
1:06:57
pull it to my heart
1:07:06
did you defeat the Sentinel Slayer how soon do you think he'll be back at
1:07:13
hereford's void
1:07:19
all right
1:07:29
what I just I just roll my eyes
1:07:39
what is this
1:07:46
[Music] I look at Flynn with just the look of concern I'll look up from the book what
1:07:55
what do you say you know very hard to tell in Australia
1:08:01
it could be in grave peril dying
1:08:07
sleeping or just Satan was you know just amongst the
1:08:15
grass and yeah and um I don't know if he's ever been contacted by Magic before
1:08:21
he said what is this foreign
1:08:28
[Music]
1:08:35
how does that thing work something like walking or I'm starting
1:08:40
to walk off what what thing the thing you did in the temple
1:08:47
with the orb and you collected Magic oh yes uh yes
1:08:52
collects magic and I can use it if it would be helpful but what are we trying
1:08:59
to contact uh shria is that what I'm hearing yeah yeah so this would not be helpful for that no no unfortunately not
1:09:07
uh I'll cast a look over to hayfried who's working on the swords
1:09:12
um is the like potion bench anywhere near where he is do I see any yellow miles
1:09:18
make an investigation check okay 19.
1:09:27
um yeah uh you're looking for a yellow vial I think that was the color of the potion that he
1:09:33
gave to Alma that seemed to revitalize her oh that's right um you look and there is one more on the
1:09:40
Shelf last one hey freed seems preoccupied with
1:09:46
the books that he's going through [Music] um I'll sort of like give a ponderous
1:09:54
look to uh Flynn and seeker and Meander over to to uh
1:10:01
where a freed is hey Freda I don't mean to bother you about her do you think I could
1:10:07
I don't know these things are probably quite valuable um but I I'm hoping to contact shria and
1:10:14
I uh and I'm a bit spent
1:10:24
you got to promise me though that uh if you use it at some point you gotta bring me back
1:10:31
more ingredients to make another one these things are very valuable to me absolutely I mean I do not can we can
1:10:38
can I hear this from like yeah yeah uh
1:10:45
I might be able to get you some more of that green glass that you like
1:10:50
can we just pause it on the green glass thing for a bit I will talk to you more
1:10:55
about that the list I will need some more
1:11:01
ingredients I'll I'll write you out a list I will
1:11:07
um with with grates regret consume this person
1:11:14
all right um and you feel like a brief jolt of Arcane energy run
1:11:22
through your body you have an extra spell slot okay
1:11:29
uh I mean maybe uh maybe tell him first what's going on
1:11:35
all right I sort of rubbed my palm to my forehead explain it
1:11:48
Okay so right um kis
1:11:55
try it's ketic contacting Yeah by magical means
1:12:01
are you all right are you coming back
1:12:08
saddle mount having a hard time stopping the bleeding
1:12:18
we'll get there as soon as I can
1:12:25
my face goes one at this and I uh
1:12:31
I I sort of I like don't really make eye contact with Flynn and I look over to uh
1:12:37
is it it's definitely and Alma that are currently at the uh yeah yeah and uh
1:12:43
an 86. [ __ ] did he understand what was going on yeah
1:12:50
he understood what do you say he's bleeding a tank or someone is wait
1:12:57
what what is he okay I he didn't say he
1:13:02
said he was trying to stop the bleeding did you say he was sounded like he could
1:13:07
be in trouble before do we go now ah yes
1:13:12
I um take me short we can't take he said he's headed back
1:13:19
to saddle mount okay uh I don't know from where uh but we should get to saddle mount and
1:13:28
I don't know ask around for a bird pretty late but yeah we gotta go find him if if he's if he's bleeding
1:13:37
if he's dying yeah we have to prevent it there is no time then
1:13:44
here are things I'll go over the table slam my book shut throw it in my bag should we break the others are we coming
1:13:51
back you're away yeah I'm not asleep I'm just in my own world over there
1:13:57
sketching like but I so I haven't heard any of this because I'm not paying attention we don't know where he's at okay he could
1:14:03
be all right oh poor Alma
1:14:10
uh I will as a uh with with a I'll look I I I have I have I look very
1:14:17
contrite but then I I glance over at the um uh the belt that I was given and I a
1:14:26
little smirk appears in my face and I snatch it up and I head over to where Alma is sleeping and I will
1:14:32
um sort of gently push her shoulder to jostle her boy I
1:14:39
don't know wake up I have something foreign
1:14:47
are you using words go away
1:14:53
on the Australia might be in danger again well
1:14:59
it's kind of the business we're in okay I'm awake
1:15:07
um on the bright side uh I think you'll enjoy this enjoy saving
1:15:12
him no ah this and I hand her the uh I hand her the uh Giant's belt
1:15:19
our diet's ring that is a human sized belt what's this well uh
1:15:26
I hand her the the paper that every gave me no interest hired to read just tell me
1:15:32
what it is it will allow you to channel lightning uh through metal and to color
1:15:38
lining from the sky why I think I think you're gonna have some
1:15:44
fun with that as long as your characters almost like from the sky you're gonna be
1:15:49
careful not no not in here not in here I'm not bought we're about to go try to
1:15:56
get shria and he may be in danger and there might be some kind of Base Persona okay let's go let's go well we gotta go
1:16:02
now but remember that that's our favorite about the boy who uh talks to the dragon and doesn't have to kill the dragon
1:16:07
no [Music] okay
1:16:13
do you think this will fit me because I think it's kind of big I think if you just tighten this the strap here it's
1:16:19
just because there's leather bits and there's the other bits I'll help you and I sort of like I get her out of bed and
1:16:25
I kind of like come fix them out to her and make sure it like looks nice with her uh and I sort of and then like I
1:16:32
like have this like very sort of sweet smile on my face and then as I turn to the rest of the group I like look great
1:16:39
I'll give a hurry nod and I um uh just I just like uh timidly tap
1:16:45
thesley on the shoulder what what um our comrade try it
1:16:50
I'm so sorry I promise you there was a time it wasn't like this it was brief
1:16:56
but try as in danger and we must go to his
1:17:01
Aid and if you're looking to travel with us then
1:17:07
and this is the way it goes [Music]
1:17:14
if someone and I ruefully closed my book and I just
1:17:22
sort of like pinched the bridge of my nose really hard and I stand up and I get ready to leave
1:17:31
I don't know if you'll be back by the morning or anything but uh
1:17:36
just wanted to give the opportunity to um and he flip the switch in the back of that Ace's head
1:17:43
oh and he holds Daddy's his head out
1:17:49
hey Thaddeus Hey look Dad it's been interesting
1:17:54
what's going on that's a word well we were we were hoping to talk to you in the
1:18:00
morning but you know shria he's he's in trouble
1:18:05
oh and we have to go help him and that means we might not be able to say
1:18:10
goodbye because you'll be gone so we're doing it now oh
1:18:16
um okay well boy I wasn't prepared for this neither
1:18:22
were we um um that's true well I mean hopefully it's not the last time that we'll see each other as soon as I
1:18:30
fingers that I don't have crossed um as soon as I get a body I mean hopefully I'll be able to come back out
1:18:36
and see all of you it seems like this is a common place we can probably hang out here and find
1:18:43
you eventually yeah yeah hey this is just a Thaddeus but um you may want to
1:18:49
seek out March see if you can help her with the search for her sister here the last yeah comparison she has you know he's
1:18:55
looking out with us I mean whichever works we would welcome you at any time I've
1:19:01
got a uh questionable future a few days in front of me I have no idea what's gonna happen
1:19:06
so I'm hoping to see y'all again and oh um one thing because I know some of us did
1:19:14
this together but I just can can everyone just turn around real quick just don't look for oh just a couple
1:19:20
seconds my eyes okay it's a little tricky if I can just it's easier with hands and and
1:19:27
you can hear a uh a little piston pop in his head as a as a side panel opens up
1:19:34
and 86 reaches in and grabs the necklace that Seeker had helped you guys Forge
1:19:41
initially a member of the team that doesn't have one of these
1:19:47
and I think it's probably now that I'm going to be in West reach probably a little bit more useful for
1:19:53
her to have it then for me so if you want to take this uh I don't
1:19:59
think I'll need it anymore I'm gonna like blush a little bit at being thought of and then I'm gonna very
1:20:05
gently reach my hand out and say thank you very much that is you're welcome sorry just two more seconds if
1:20:11
everyone could just turn around is this and the panel shuts once more in the back of his head
1:20:18
okay Gonna Miss You Thaddeus yes Daddy I said um
1:20:24
you're an Exemplar of all the things we hope to be here generous strong well they're
1:20:32
directed capable despite your circumstances well thank you you're a true hero I mean
1:20:39
I'm just doing what you guys are all doing which is making the most of what I've got so
1:20:44
thank you all for being my my arms and legs for the last couple weeks I'll uh I'll kind of kind of get closer and kind
1:20:51
of kneel down if he's on the ground or I'll get closer to my level I'm just I just
1:20:56
I uh I I know that in order to be awake for a lot of
1:21:02
a lot of our adventures and and we didn't we didn't do that there's a lot going on but I do want to
1:21:10
say thank you this is for the talks that we've had and helped me
1:21:16
you know deal with stuff and I'm still figuring it out but I'm glad I had you there
1:21:21
so thank you for being my friend of course and I will see you soon
1:21:31
um so I'll uh and I'll reach out my hand in a fist and kind of give like a little uh Rat attack on his
1:21:38
um head to kind of like reverberate like a Ting into a tainting
1:21:43
um I don't know I don't I can't shake your hand so that's the best that was that was good it was kind of weird but I get
1:21:50
it I mean I'm doing the best I can now you guys have someone to go save that's right yeah let's not waste any
1:21:57
more time go good luck that yes thank you see you soon I'll see you soon [Music]
1:22:03
hey freed up saddle mount uh that's one yeah that one right there you got it
1:22:09
thank you how are we getting to this place where your friend is oh just wait
1:22:14
what do you mean just wait I don't I don't want it up under the teleportation Circle you'll
1:22:21
feel a brief lifting in your chest take care of him 86
1:22:27
and you all operate into a dark small room all of you can barely even fit your sort
1:22:33
of shoulder to shoulder in here but once again a very similar room with a teleportation circle on the on the
1:22:39
ground I want to get off of my foot I'm sorry it's all right Who's Next to Me Mama is in my rib okay
1:22:46
it's not you're very happy to wear it let's just walk outside all right yeah somebody find the door
1:22:54
um you are tapping your hands on the walls um Seeker eventually you find you find a
1:22:59
doorknob uh you open it up and uh everyone else sees what they have seen
1:23:04
before which is a small staircase that leads up to another door I'm sorry I have a quick question yeah did I get a
1:23:11
short rest [Music] yes you did
1:23:19
yes somebody hashtag power nap um I didn't take any damage so it
1:23:24
actually doesn't help me at all yeah but that would have been nice you get like super like awesomeness back like no no
1:23:30
okay no no no not at all no well we tried so as Seeker opens the door
1:23:35
you all begin to hear the sounds from outside you don't hear too many people as you
1:23:41
know it is very late at night at this point and now having traveled
1:23:47
to almost the other side of the continent it's even later in the evening than you had previously been in marstock
1:23:54
[Music] you hear a gentle Ocean Breeze
1:24:01
you hear the sounds of waves lapping up onto a
1:24:07
coastline every once in a while you hear off in the distance the call of a
1:24:14
seagull [Music] and you hear the creaking of wood
1:24:20
[Music] that sounds like it's coming from numerous very large ships
1:24:26
and as you all walk up and exit the second door you're greeted by
1:24:33
a smaller shed off to your right you see three levers
1:24:39
all in the upper position and opening the door to the shed you
1:24:45
look out and the first thing that hits you is the smell the salty Ocean Air
1:24:53
and the Cool Breeze that occupies this room now
1:24:59
you take a couple of steps outside and immediately off to your right
1:25:04
you see two dozen massive warships docked
1:25:10
right off at the port you can see two guards for each ship one
1:25:19
patrolling on the top deck and one walking back and forth on the
1:25:25
pier guarding each of these boats as you take a step out
1:25:30
and are greeted with this massive dock you look a little bit closer at the ships and you can see the edges are
1:25:38
lined with this beautiful bronze and gold filigree you look and you see the Cannons on the
1:25:46
top deck much larger than any cannons that you've seen before
1:25:51
and in the backs of them almost coming up looking like a wave
1:25:57
almost in the back of each of these cannons you can see these elaborate contraptions
1:26:02
gears turning and in motion you can see cannonballs in this
1:26:08
wave-like metal structure leading into the cannon it looks like a
1:26:13
highly Advanced loading mechanism
1:26:19
and as you all turn around for a brief moment to look at the shed that you just came
1:26:25
out of you're sort of distracted by the ships and you aren't really thinking about the shed for a brief moment and as you look
1:26:32
back the shed is no longer there but then you'll think to yourselves
1:26:39
no that we just came out of a shed and as soon as you think of the shed and realize in your mind that it must be
1:26:46
there the shed reappears cool okay and you get the sense that even
1:26:53
though the shed is on a what looks to be a very well traveled and busy dock this is probably a magic
1:27:00
that has been put upon it so that no one unless you know that the shed is here no
1:27:05
one can see it I'm a lean over to Alma magic is cool so cool so cool so cool I
1:27:14
want to pull definitely aside just really quick and just say do you recognize these ships
1:27:21
do I recognize any of the ships
1:27:27
make a history check for me uh 17 17. you know distinctly that these
1:27:35
are ships of ondale um if you couldn't tell by the
1:27:42
um the the gold and orange Flags waving at the top of the Mast okay you could definitely tell by the intricate designs
1:27:49
of machines and mechanics that are built into these ships so I breathe an
1:27:55
immediate sigh of relief
1:28:01
um they're they're on dail ships I breathe as much as I know similar sigh of relief and then yeah yeah
1:28:10
all right you're all out of the shed how far away are we from these ships they are pretty much immediately to your
1:28:16
right you walk out 7 500 feet and you are directly on one of the piers to get to the ships
1:28:23
um you look out in front of you though there's sort of a more direct line out of this shed
1:28:28
um and you can see um a flurry of buildings in front of you
1:28:34
um all of them seemingly one story not very tall uh but you do see Stone roads
1:28:40
in front of you all completely empty as this is the dead of night
1:28:48
find him Flynn um maybe make a note and it might have to be small but
1:28:54
uh on the map of where this shed is in relationship to sell them out and I'll
1:29:01
pull out the I'll briefly pull out the map and I'll kind of put like a little small X um and I'll roll it back up okay
1:29:08
I'm gonna look up into this guy look for shraya
1:29:14
you don't see anything flying in the sky but you do see
1:29:20
probably as many stars as you've ever seen in your life not a cloud in the sky
1:29:25
a stark contrast to this stormy night of marstock the the air even though it has that that
1:29:32
slight wind chill from the ocean the air is quite warm here
1:29:40
look at all those stars that is something to be heard guys we gotta find dryer what what kind
1:29:47
of ground are we on like a stone or yes it um almost all the ground around you
1:29:53
is this finely crafted Cobblestone I would like to think about the shed real
1:29:59
quick so it can pop up and walk around the what I would perceive as do I press is there a back of it where I could make
1:30:06
a mark on the ground yes okay so I would draw a Mark that looks like an hourglass but there's no bottom
1:30:13
okay triangle and open bottom cool
1:30:19
um should we make our way towards keyed it makes sense yes he would yeah head
1:30:24
back there does anyone have any like way to find him like spells or anything I I don't
1:30:30
uh I fused up most of the magic that's Accra
1:30:35
gives to me unless we want to blow something up or have some lightning I can't really do much I mean that might
1:30:42
be the only way to show him that we're here other than screaming his name but I guess we just go down the main road and
1:30:49
I'll look around the area does it seem like there's a main road going do I mean he probably he probably would
1:30:56
have thrown over the forest I don't even if we got a kid for starters right
1:31:03
um is there a way to find the iron light Fair because that's the quickest road to try
1:31:09
out with tankers I mean I there's ways that there's markings that people leave in towns but
1:31:16
I don't know if they're still there they might be running back here maybe they're in the forest trying to run from someone
1:31:22
I don't right no we can't just wander into the forest looking for a bird it's we we have to follow the path he he went
1:31:29
on yeah you're right um and I will look for more buildings um that are permanent in my vision
1:31:36
uh do I see any that are relatively close maybe I'll start looking for those similar buildings like the taverns the
1:31:41
the back alleys and things like that um I'm gonna have you make an investigation check as it is night it's
1:31:47
pretty dark um there aren't any people out right now okay while you're I'm kind of walking
1:31:54
and like getting my forehead with my palm trying to trying to remember I don't think
1:32:01
there's a direct route I think either we have to go through the woods oh
1:32:06
take a ship I don't know another way don't remember another way uh 12. okay
1:32:13
uh with a 12 you do see um just sort of in the front of you and
1:32:19
to your left um you see what appears to be a Tavern um and it is it
1:32:27
you would surmise that it's probably a good spot for the naval cruise that come
1:32:33
in dock that's probably a popular spot for them um I'll start walking towards the tavern
1:32:38
um I can check this out come on um The Tavern is called the hulls breach
1:32:44
cool so I'll head over uh to this tavern
1:32:49
um and I will look I'll try and find the back or the side of it where there's less people and I'll start um kind of
1:32:55
checking it out uh for the symbols that I'm used to seeing the C with the line
1:33:01
and the dots and I'll start looking around to see if if Kailyn left any marks um in this town to let us know maybe
1:33:06
where she would be staying or if there's a hideout that she has set up or something okay
1:33:12
um as you're looking around this tavern you nearly give up
1:33:17
until just on the back corner inlaid on one of
1:33:22
the stones you see the symbol of the iron light Collective
1:33:27
but you can just barely see it it seems that it was put there
1:33:32
possibly years decades ago and has almost nearly faded okay
1:33:38
um this is it but it looks old right well if you did send him right across the
1:33:44
forest I was just hoping that we wouldn't have to go there without some idea if what was in store for us yeah
1:33:51
foreign I don't know anything I don't have anyone else have any ideas
1:33:56
so you don't know where your friend is you just know that he's in trouble we
1:34:02
know that he went to kid to look for a member of Lynn's um
1:34:07
group group I thought this was your group Flynn Collective
1:34:13
okay that did not clarify it's fine it's like you follow a God
1:34:19
oh God I'm a part of a group that it just like it's like a group it gives secret a look
1:34:26
um I all I have are Curative abilities right
1:34:31
now I really can't get you to him yeah did he says he said he was coming here
1:34:37
he was unclear uh he said he was trying to stop the bleeding and it seemed as though he was
1:34:44
in motion so your guess is as good as mine maybe we confirmed the routes to here from
1:34:53
there well it flew so I suppose um Flynn maybe does the map have any
1:34:58
suggestion of terrain well so start amount is like right it's saddle mount then the forest and
1:35:05
then keyed so unless he wants to go all the way around but he'd fly over if he's
1:35:10
hurting maybe yeah it depends on where I don't know he's injured and maybe
1:35:18
could could we ask around to see if anyone here saw someone by his description
1:35:24
to figure out which way he would have just went right to heat
1:35:29
and he's basically coming back to keed so just how do you did he come back from Key through the forest or around it well
1:35:35
he he'd be coming back to heat but we don't know from where yeah he might be coming back to saddle mount well he we
1:35:42
said to meet at Saddle Mountain right so foreign [Music]
1:35:49
that's way out of the way that's not gonna be but is there uh DM if I'm looking at this map of the forest itself
1:35:55
of Esther Grove is there any indication of like if there's a higher up uh portion of the
1:36:03
forest or a lower portion like of where it would be I to my to the best of my
1:36:09
ability to understand like what would be easy to fly through I would think probably the Lower Side he could get
1:36:16
above the canopy unfortunately you can't really tell by the map okay and where you are currently positioned you are
1:36:22
right on the coast you have an entire city in front of you before
1:36:27
at this point you can't see the tree line even um and unfortunately you don't get any sort of altitude measures from
1:36:34
them well let's just start going towards them yeah Forest it's a good idea and then maybe if we see people we can
1:36:40
actually we can go into the tavern maybe and see if people know Common routes to get to key through the forest maybe
1:36:46
there's trails that's possible because it seems the other way around would take a while I
1:36:52
mean he's got to be in the forest there might even be a guide it's uh yeah
1:36:57
unless people only sell around I think some people would find it more efficient
1:37:03
go through the forest I think it's worth
1:37:09
[Music]
1:37:16
I shoot glances at both of them and then I
1:37:22
I say [Music]
1:37:29
sure I look I understand it wasn't the best idea we
1:37:35
can talk about it later there will be no talk I don't wish to speak of it
1:37:41
but as long as the uh point is understood then I think we're good to move is everyone able if we should come
1:37:48
across any dangerous is everyone okay to go in the dark no but we don't have a choice
1:37:53
I'm okay to go in the dark true what do you mean we don't have a choice and I can help a friend if Shrine is
1:38:01
well yeah I can help with those who can't see and I don't think the point is understood and we will talk later
1:38:07
well you may speak to me Seeker but I can't promise I would hear
1:38:13
a route through the forest [Music]
1:38:18
looks really swollen are you feeling okay it hurts but it's fine if I had something that could make you
1:38:25
feel better would you want it I don't know maybe I don't want to mess with the healing process if that's but I mean
1:38:31
everything else feels okay I mean you also had a really bad fight with a giant yeah I mean I'm really tired and I want to rest but I can't
1:38:38
what do you want what do you want to do well are you feeling bad I'm feeling
1:38:45
fine and I head towards the entrance happening with Flint this conversation
1:38:50
just happened
1:38:55
all right um Flynn you open up the door to the tavern
1:39:01
um as it is almost approaching morning um you open up the door to the tavern
1:39:08
and there are um you can see on each corner you can see a human at a
1:39:15
table completely passed out great and at the bar you can see another human
1:39:23
drinking to themselves sort of muttering under their breath [Music]
1:39:32
well hi I'm I'm Flynn felawief and I'm part of the iron I Collective his eyes just poking out over top of the table
1:39:40
yeah good for you okay um I uh are you okay
1:39:47
buddy I'm fine okay um well basically uh just wondering if
1:39:55
there's any we're trying to get to keyed and we're wondering if there's any Trails through the forest that
1:40:02
we don't have to go blah blah blah blah blah does he look drunk
1:40:10
probably the most drunk you've ever seen anyone else without being unconscious what do you uh what do you drink it
1:40:16
friend just this I'll look around is he the
1:40:23
bartender doesn't he doesn't look like is there a bar keep you don't see one is is there
1:40:29
like alcohol in their side of the bar yes I'll um I'll look around all right another one else seems to be conscious
1:40:36
nope I'll hop the bar and I'll pour two beers hey what do you think you're doing I'm
1:40:42
just uh look where's that coming from as a uh from bursting out of the back door
1:40:49
um a rather uh partly middle-aged gentleman um with these thick mine chops that come
1:40:56
into a mustache um who comes out what's a broom and starts like whacking okay okay and I'll
1:41:03
hop back over there I'll hop back over the bar I'm sorry I'm sorry I didn't see anyone and I'm just trying to find my
1:41:08
friend don't you ever do that in my bar again I understood I'm sorry sir
1:41:13
I'm playing Fela wave and I'm from the island Collective nice what can I get you to drink I am looking for
1:41:19
information I just was wondering if there's any way
1:41:24
to get the key through the forest that Travelers use so I have to go around
1:41:29
and I'll after I say that I will reach into my pouch and we'll pull out two gold pieces and I'll place them on the
1:41:35
table well and I'd really love your help [Music] oh then you came to the right place I
1:41:41
thought so you're looking for a way around the forest um the quickest way through it one of
1:41:47
our friends arrived here uh recently to travel the keyed and we were supposed to meet him here
1:41:53
um but we're trying to intercept because we feel like he may be in danger so we're wondering what the most uh common
1:42:00
path to come back to South amount would be well
1:42:05
probably if you're coming from you said you said you were coming from he was coming from he's coming from yeah
1:42:10
probably if you're coming from Key fastest way wouldn't even be through probably just be go around the southern
1:42:17
Southern bit of the forest okay for that Forest will slow you down a couple of days it's probably better to just go
1:42:23
around the southern side or just Charter a ship around yeah I've done that a couple times it's a little
1:42:29
bit uh easier of a ride because you don't really have to do anything okay southern side
1:42:34
got it and I'll um I'll give them an alternative and then I'll stop for a second and it's like I'll turn back
1:42:40
around one beer or two all right and he uh reaches down from
1:42:46
below the counter um goes over by one of these large barrel kegs pours your beer so I'll uh
1:42:53
I'll take the beer and um just kind of look at my arm and how it kind of like hurts and I'll think back at hey for
1:43:00
example of how it like temporarily helped ease the the pain um
1:43:05
and I will uh just chug it just chug it before I head out okay the whole thing can you meet up with the rest of the
1:43:11
group then I'll head back out and uh uh yeah so uh they said go to the
1:43:17
southern side apparently going through the forest is like really hard to do and Australia's hurt he's probably taken at
1:43:23
least uh past these resistance so he's probably just going to the South side but if he's flying is the path of this
1:43:29
resistance over the forest well I guess we can keep an eye to the sky but I don't know if he'd be able to fly if
1:43:35
he's wounded this bad I'll think back do I remember if if when shria is hurt if it's if it's hard for him to fly
1:43:41
[Music] um and it could be the wing thing too I mean like we don't know where he's it's
1:43:47
you thinking about it it's probably different with such a long distance you have seen him in combat get
1:43:53
injured and continue flying that could possibly be adrenaline that keeps him flying but over a long distance you
1:43:59
don't know if that would hold up right and it looks like it's decent distance so I think the southern
1:44:06
side is that's what the Barky was saying that go that way do we do we want some of us to stay here in case he does fly
1:44:12
over let's start um
1:44:18
either way uh we're in saddle mount so I think it's wise if we do as the town
1:44:23
says got some horses it's it's in the name I mean I'll look around does it look like
1:44:30
there's places open right now I mean it's what no it's it's probably the sun
1:44:35
is probably going to come up in an hour or two I mean maybe we have people if we
1:44:40
want to have people wait until the store's open and the the Staples knock on the bloody door we've got the gold
1:44:47
yes you're right hey time is of the essence as always how many horses do we
1:44:53
need um well me and you can fit with someone so
1:44:58
what one three horses
1:45:03
I'll look around uh and start going through the town and try and find a stable I'll follow
1:45:08
um I'll have both of you make a perception check for me okay uh right yeah I'm just rolling like oh
1:45:16
you do man you both rolled the same thing no way but I have yeah you've probably got something very high
1:45:22
perception so I that to me is uh an 11. yeah I got an eight and eleven
1:45:27
um okay look after a couple minutes of looking around you do see a stable okay
1:45:34
it does not have any horses in it though why name a bloody Town Saddle Mountain
1:45:40
you're not gonna have any horses boats board board The Boat Town
1:45:48
battles maybe they don't actually have the horses but didn't call it saddle sail I'll go up to this empty stables
1:45:56
and I will pound on the door no answer guys we're wasting time we have to go
1:46:01
all right how do we even know what direction he went in I'm concerned that we're gonna go off towards the southern tip of this forest and maybe he's inside
1:46:08
of it or he went on Shore I well so when I was talking to the barkeep he said the
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southern way around the forest is the most common and the most uh the easiest way to get to Heat going through the
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forest is very difficult because these are the forest is very dangerous and and
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thick um and then you can take a shark and as you're saying this
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you're sort of referencing the direction yeah and you look up and just off in the
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distance just on the horizon you can see
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maybe a bird no now that it's flying closer it's it's larger than a bird wait
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is that yeah I'm this bird gets bigger and bigger
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just a point off in the distance flying towards you
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all of a sudden you see its wings stop flapping and from high up in the sky begins
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falling what over into the tree line and disappear and that is where we're going to end
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this episode
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with Trias um but with that we're gonna call it
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right there thank you all so much for listening and we can't wait to see y'all again next week
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may my end be the beginning in death as in life I Shall Serve the outcast but that's what not here do bye nerds
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